Simple Ogre3D Animation Viewer [Full Source Code Available]

[seenooh]

Greetings,

I was always fascinated by those great 3D tools and curious about their development. Finally when I had some time, I tackled the topic of Tools Programming by researching and doing small experiments until I felt being ready to do a small complete application for my learning experience purposes. So I chose to do a very basic Animation Viewer tool based on Ogre’s 3D rendering engine. In this experiment, I wanted to learn how to use WinForms C# for the tool’s UI and how to invoke unmanaged code from a C++ application that talks with Ogre3D. It took me 15 working days to wrap up the tool (including the learning curve to familiarize myself enough with Ogre3D in order to finish the requirements of this tool). This was a great learning experience to me, so I decided to share the source code for those who had similar curiosities and wanted an initial push.

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Here's the link to download the binary and/or full source code (+ some instructions): http://www.alhasanstudio.com/?portfolio ... ion-viewer

By the way, I do realize that there is a complete wrapper for C# (Mogre) that I could use and I do realize that there are much better "Viewer" tools already done in the wiki, but this was for me an excersice to understand the wrapping process.

Hope this helps!

[areay]

Good stuff, I've sent the link to my art guy to give it a try.

[mkultra333]

Looks great, doubly so for the fast development time.

[seenooh]

Thanks guys! Hope this helps.

Looks great, doubly so for the fast development time.

It's due to the wealth of information found in the wiki, books or the community. Every obstacle I faced had a solution available in the forums when I search. So it was pretty smooth.